contemperate

English

Etymology

See contemper.

Verb

contemperate (third-person singular simple present contemperates, present participle contemperating, simple past and past participle contemperated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To temper; to moderate.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     Moisten and contemperate the air.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “contemperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• compenetrate

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

contemperate

1. inflection of contemperare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

contemperate f pl

1. feminine plural of contemperato

Anagrams

• compenetrate, copertamente

Latin

Verb

contemperāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of contemperō